States push hard for online sales taxes by year end

Sales taxes for Internet purchases - currently a crazy quilt of rates from state to state - are moving toward a uniform reality. Several states have banded together to create a data and tax collection infrastructure that likely will be in place by the end of the year.

"States are pushing hard to have a voluntary system up and running by the end of the year," said Charles Collins, vice president of government affairs at sales tax software provider Taxware Inc., in an interview Wednesday. "Then Congress will probably take at look at it this year. Much of this is about education."

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